Purple Hightops
@purplehightops.bsky.social
She/Her/Elle. Rural Alberta. Socialist Beer Club. Pets, politics, education, literacy, daily minutia, and sometimes baking or gardening.
"Alberta’s Education Act indicates that registered independent schools are funded by the province, and are not required to use certificated teachers or to teach the Alberta programs of study."
@ctvnewsedmonton.bsky.social · 9h agoAlberta launches review after child hit with belt, school supervisor charged
I'm making a cake. And my house smells like cake right now. And it is so good 😀
"The head of lettuce has left the crisper." I sure hope so...
Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean@mitchellab.bsky.social · 6d ago"Call out the leaders, call out the parties, but don’t pull a Poilievre. Canada is an incredible country filled with amazing people who are worth doing our best for; no matter how they vote." #cdnpoli womenofabpoli.substack.com/p/pierre-poi...
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
This wasn’t paywalled: encourage ABs to read it. It covers the mob mentality of the UCP caucus (Schow looms large & ugly here), the lack of care about separation by voters & the big biz community, how unpopular Nenshi is, and how shitty and ridiculous Calgary looks in an increasingly serious world.
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2w agoWhat Richard found on this trip to his hometown was an odd kind of Stampede Omerta. He found that many of the people who count in Alberta seem to act as if Smith’s referendum on whether to hold a referendum on leaving Canada either doesn’t exist or doesn’t matter. Read more:
Tell CBC to connect the dots! Call on CBC News to connect the forest fires with the fossil fuel industry. share.nwmd.social/s/nniHFME6
Tell the CBC: Connect the Dots Between the Forest Fires and Fossil Fuels.
share.nwmd.social
I'm hitting the road shortly to go hang out with fam for a bit. I know Daisy will be well looked after by her favourite cat nanny, but I already miss her.
So anyway, my boyfriend from junior high / high school just called me up out of the blue to tell me that he still loves me.
Good morning from Alberta. FUCK YOUR FASCIST PANCAKES 😎
It's been over a year and a half since I have danced on the coffee table! I'm never giving up this coffee table goddamn it 💜
I will just yell this out randomly, from this point forward. Whether or not there are any pancakes in the vicinity. I feel like this transcends breakfasts and stampedes 😀
Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · 3w agoMark my words, they will try again next year, but “Fuck your fascist pancakes” will never again not be yelled at a pancake breakfast.
what are we even doing, Canada? This is not who we should be. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Canada attends Trump summit targeting left-wing extremism
Canada is one of more than 60 countries attending the high-level counterterrorism meeting.
thestar.com
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Mowed the lawn this evening. Then, as I was having a sit down to recover, my neighbour and her dog walked by. She stopped to tell me that I am chaos incarnate, because I don't have a predictable lawn mowing pattern.
This is not new. I'm not saying it's good, but featured articles from the local MLA and MP have been included in our rural print papers for at least a decade.
The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 4w agoGood news folks! With local journalism struggling to stay alive, the GOA has stepped in to fill the reporting void! /s (Does it count as government subsidized media when the government is literally writing the stories?) #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Happy happy birthday to my amazing mum, who has clocked 86 years, as of today 💜
Called it! bsky.app/profile/purp...
PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · last mo.NEW: US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra hosted over a dozen far-right activists and right-wing media personalities at his ‘Fourth of July’ party in Ottawa this weekend The US Embassy says Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich, who was convicted on criminal charges last year, was accredited as a journalist
O+G does not ❤️ you back.
Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · last mo.The oilpatch cut 10,000 jobs while reaching record production levels. Those jobs are vanishing. What you're thinking of is pipelines. Pipelines create very temporary construction jobs. I'm sick of the obvious lie that clean energy means no jobs. It's bullshit. edmontonjournal.com/business/ene...
As the CBC covers the new pipeline and expansion of oil and gas in Canada, watch the progress of the lowest running headline. Disaster after disaster. These stories are all the same story. #ClimateCatastrophe #KeepItInTheGround We need a #GreenEnergyRevolution
In the face of manufactured controversy, Winnipeg’s Nakba exhibit is a breakthrough. El Jones speaks to the Palestinian advocates who helped make the exhibit happen and who finally see their history reflected in a major Canadian institution. breachmedia.ca/the-nakba-ex...
The Nakba exhibit is a breakthrough for a long-silenced Palestinian narrative ⋆ The Breach
Despite the manufactured controversy, the 12-metre exhibit is the first time the story of Palestinian dispossession is being told in a national institution
breachmedia.ca
